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...than an all around desire for self-sacrifice which brings about the final catastrophe. The piece de resistance of the show is Eric Von Stroheim's Tentenie skull, which, as Germanophobes will notice to their regret, is not exploited for propaganda purposes. The prototype of the Prussian junker, Stroheim is badly miscast in the role of a Scrbian officer. As far as Dita Parlo, the blonde heroine of the picture, is concerned, there are grounds for assuming that she was beautiful some time...
...like moments of nightmare in a some what foggy dream. His new book, The Voice of Destruction, is an evidently hurried transcript of notes on Hitler's private assertions in 1932-34. It may be substantially credited or discounted according to how much distortion the reader sees in Junker Rauschning's solemn retrospective indignation. It is certainly unique for the picture it gives of Hitler snapping and shouting at his pals, swearing to make Germany a "core of steel" for a new European society, breaking off to hum motifs from Wagner. Pertinent gems from the Führer...
...Germany who consistently dared to oppose Adolf Hitler was Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in common .with the corporal who became Germany's Führer;: both loved the Fatherland...
...headquarters announced he was-was another. Some clue to the possible fate of General Fritsch was contained in reports that Great Britain by offering to negotiate with "any honorable Government in Germany," had focused attention on the one element which could seize power from the Nazis-the powerful old Junker Reichswehr, whose leader had been Werner von Fritsch. The most, important question in the strange death of Fritsch seemed to be: was he shot from front or back...
...Prussian officer, himself trained in a military school, Rauschning is an East Prussian Junker who joined the Nazis in 1931 because he could see no other way out for Germany's desperation. He became President of the Danzig Senate, Hitler's go-between in his off-stage talks with Poland's late President Pilsudski. But when the Führer ordered Rauschning to persecute Danzig Jews and Catholics, he quit the Nazis, took refuge in Poland, where he wrote his expose...